were completed by conservation agency representatives in all states and 
provinces and returned. 
THE SURVEY INDICATED that three Canadian provinces, Yukon, 
Ontario, and Quebec, paid bounties on animals in 1965 and 1970 (Table I). 
It is interesting to note that in Ontario and the Yukon, bounty payments 
appear to have increased. Quebec which has vacillated between the bounty 
system and professional government trappers finally dropped the system 
in 1971. The provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador do not pay bounties, 
but in each of these provinces there is a federal bounty on harbor seals. 
IN THE UNITED STATES in 1965, seventeen states paid bounties or 
portions of bounty fees from state or other funds, but in 1970 the total 
number dropped to nine states (Table II). Moreover, there was a substantial 
drop in the amount of bounty payments during the same period. In 1965, 
approximately $890,000 was paid out of various funds. By 1970, the total 
had dropped to approximately $254,000 or a DECREASE OF OVER 71 
PERCENT. Payments decreased in Alaska from $275,000 to $24,500; in 
Michigan from $203,920 to $52,945; and in South Dakota from $78,575 to 
$43,102. Pennslyvania dropped its bounty which cost the state $126,171 in 
1965. Other states that dropped the system within the five-year period 
include Arizona, California, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Minne- 
sota recently changed from a bounty system to a predator control system, 
and Wyoming has a predator control system in cooperation with federal 
agencies and the woolgrowers associations. Only in two states, Missouri 
and Utah, did payments increase. Mississippi began paying bounties on 
beaver, nutria, and bobcat in 1971. 
BASED ON volunteer information, at least nine other states permit 
counties to bounty animals. Counties in Arkansas, Indiana, Maryland, Mis- 
sissippi, Colorado, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Illinois, Wisconsin, and 
Wyoming bounty a variety of animals including fox, coyote, bobcat, beaver, 
groundhog, and crow. The county bounty payment system for Illinois was 
recently reviewed in the IAS BULLETIN (Winter 1972). Since the question 
